This Day in History
Today: November 26, 2025
783
The Asturian queen Adosinda is held at a monastery to prevent her nephew from retaking the throne from Mauregatus.
1161
Battle of Caishi: A Song dynasty fleet fights a naval engagement with Jin dynasty ships on the Yangtze river during the Jin–Song Wars.
1476
Vlad the Impaler defeats Basarab Laiota with the help of Stephen the Great and Stephen V Báthory and becomes the ruler of Wallachia for the third time.
1778
In the Hawaiian Islands, Captain James Cook becomes the first European to visit Maui.
1789
A national Thanksgiving Day is observed in the United States as proclaimed by President George Washington at the request of Congress.
1805
Official opening of Thomas Telford's Pontcysyllte Aqueduct.
1812
The Battle of Berezina begins during Napoleon's retreat from Russia.
1852
An earthquake as high as magnitude 8.8 rocks the Banda Sea, triggering a tsunami and killing at least 60 in the Dutch East Indies.[1]
1863
United States President Abraham Lincoln proclaims November 26 as a national Thanksgiving Day, to be celebrated annually on the final Thursday of November. Following the Franksgiving controversy from 1939 to 1941, it has been observed on the fourth Thursday in 1942 and subsequent years.
1865
Battle of Papudo: A Spanish navy schooner is defeated by a Chilean corvette north of Valparaíso, Chile.
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